Shaft-tug attachment.



No. 69|,23ll Patented Jan. I4, 1902.

A. S. BAILEY.

SHAFT' TUS ATTACHMENT. (Application led. July 14, 1898. B'exxewd Nov. 27, 1 901.)

(Ro Model.)

UNITE STATES ATENYT VOFFICE.;

ALEXANDER STEPHEN BAILEY, OF CRAVFORD, GEORGIA.

SHAFT-Tue ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 691,231, dated January 14, 1902.

Application filed July 14,1898. Renewed November 27, 1901. Serial No. 83,941. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER STEPHEN BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crawford, in the county of Oglethorpe and State of Georgia, have invented anew and useful Harness Attachment, of which the following is a specification'.

The invention relates to improvements in harness attachments.

The object of the present invention is to provideasimple,inexpensive,and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to an ordinary thill-tug and to be connected with a holdback-strap and arranged on a thill, whereby a horse may be hitched and unhitched without fastening or unfastening the holdbackstrap.

The invention consists in theconstruotion and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of an attachment constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to a shaft and a thill-tug. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken longitudinally of the shaft. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the device detached. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of the shaft, illustrating the manner of mounting the stop thereon.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the gures of the drawings.

1 designates a cuff or sleeve adapted to receive a shaft 2 and arranged within an ordinary thill-tug 3, being secured to the same by a strap 4, which passes through the sleeve or cuff and is buckled around the outer face of the thill-tug at the inner side of the shaft, as

clearly shown in Fig. 2of the accompanying drawings; but the strap 4 may be arranged at the outer side of the thill, if desired. Instead, however, of employing a thill-tug the sleeve or cu may be applied to the harness toltake the place of the thill-tug; but in the accompanying drawings the invention is illustrated as applied to the ordinary harness without altering the construction thereof.

The cuff, which is arranged in advance of by 'constructin g the sleeve or cuff in this man-,

ner a clumsy overlapping joint of the leather or Yother material of which the device is constructed is avoided.r

The annular stop 5 ofthe shaft is composed of inner and outer sections 8 and 9, constructed of leather or other suitable material and split at diametrically opposite points to avoid overlapping the material. The stop is tacked or otherwise secured to the shaft to mount it permanently thereon.

The strap 4 receives a ring 10, to which the holdback-strap 1l is connected, and after the holdback-strap is once attached to the ring it is unnecessary to fasten or unfasten it in hitching and unhitching a horse to a vehicle. hitching an animal to a Vehicle the cus or sleeves are placed on the shafts and arranged against the stops and the traces are attached to the whiffletree, thereby completing the operation. p tened, and the horse' may then be driven from between the shafts, the sleeves or cuffs sliding outward on the same.

In unhitching the traces are unfas operated and may be readily applied to the y ordinary harness without necessitating any alteration in the construction thereof. It possesses great strength and durability and greatly facilitates hitching and unhitching.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

A device of the class described comprising a thill-tug designed to be-arranged on the thill in the usual manner, a sleeve arranged within the thill-tug and composed of two split sections having their split portions located at different points, said sleeve being detachable, a short strap 4 extending through the sleeve and passing around the thill-tug at one IOO side thereof, and a holdbaok-strap having a my own I have hereto axed my signature in ring linked into the loop formed by the strap the presence of two Witnesses.

4, whereby the latter is adapted to debach- 1 ably connect the holdback-s'orap, the tug and MEXAMER SEDPHLN BAU'LY y 5 the sleeve, substantially as and for the pur- Witnesses:

pose described. WALTER MAXWELL,

In testimony that I @l-im the foregoing as l J. N. STOKELY. 

